Events By Quarter
Cup of Culture
ONLINE - Rafiki
Online Film Screening
(1/7/21) - This event is now online.
Rafiki, Swahili for “friend,” follows two young women, Kena and Ziki, as their romantic relationship unfolds amidst political and cultural pressures around LGBTQIA+ rights in Kenya. The two find a way to love each other despite the watchful gaze of the neighborhood.
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ONLINE - An Evening of Poetry with a Disability Activist
Therese Estacion
Online Performance
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability. Therese lives in Tkaronto. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine, and were shortlisted for the 2021 Marina Nemat Award. Her first collection of poems, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug in Spring 2021.
Race Matters Series
ONLINE - Shaping the Way America’s Children are Educated: Latina Teachers in Majority-Minority Schools
Professor Glenda Flores
Online Discussion
(1/10) - This event is now online.
Today, Latina women make up the fastest growing non-white group entering the teaching profession at a time when it is estimated that 20% of all students nationwide now identify as Latina/o and are more likely to attend majority-minority schools. Through ethnographic and participant observation in two underperforming majority-minority schools in Los Angeles, as well as interviews with teachers, parents and staff, Flores examines the complexities stemming from a growing workforce of Latina teachers who work in schools where the majority of parents and children are Latinx, Black and Asian.
Glenda Marisol Flores is an Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture won the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Race, Gender and Class Section of the American Sociological Association. Her research on Latina professionals, in particular Latina teachers, has been published in several venues such as Qualitative Sociology, City and Community, Ethnography and Gender, Work and Organization. Her research agenda centers on the social mobility patterns of Latinas/os into the middle class, and their workplace experiences in the white-collar world, especially teaching and medicine, and how Latinx cultures emerge in their fields. She is a co-principal investigator of a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation funded project that seeks to improve STEM success among underrepresented students. Her new book project is on Latina/o/x physicians.
Cup of Culture
KCSB-FM x MCC collaboration - Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché Screening
Poly Styrene
MCC Theater
Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements.
But the late punk maverick didn’t just leave behind an immense cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste Bell, who became the unwitting guardian of her mother’s legacy and her mother’s demons. Misogyny, racism, and mental illness plagued Poly’s life, while their lasting trauma scarred Celeste’s childhood and the pair’s relationship.
Featuring unseen archive material and rare diary entries narrated by Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, this documentary follows Celeste as she examines her mother's unopened artistic archive and traverses three continents to better understand Poly the icon and Poly the mother.
Collaboration with KCSB-FM.
